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   Engineer Joe McNew leans out of the window of the cab to measure #429's tender under the water tank at West Jefferson, North Carolina. © O. Winston Link stamp on back.

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   "Brakeman J. M. 'Scutch' Stevens relaxes on the return trip up White Top Mountain after leaving Tuckerdale, N.C. He needs the rest after all the hard work he does at Damascus and West Jefferson, NC, throwing switches & signaling the engineer. Sometimes he has to raise his arm shoulder height so McNew can see it over the top of the weeds". O. Winston Link Photography stamp on back.

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3. Abindgon Branch, West Jefferson Passenger On Board Passenger Car - West Jefferson and near Nella, passengers on broad passenger, Abingdon Branch; kids and older women. There was a field trip on the train from Bristol Junior High School.

   OWL2007.04.1425

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4. Abingdon Branch Class M Locomotive 429 changing direction on a "Wye" in West Jefferson. - Abingdon Branch Class M Locomotive 429 changing direction on a "Wye" in West Jefferson. A "wye" was the easiest way to turn a locomotive. The locomotive would head up oneleg of the "Y", the switch at the spur would be thrown and the locomotive would back down the other leg of the "Y" and out onto the main track, but headed in the oposite direciton.

   OWL2004.26.02

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5. Abingdon Branch Conductor Ralph White looking at circus and movie posters. - Ralph White, the Abingdon Branch's regular conductor, looks at some posters while the locomotive is being turned and the train readied for its return from West Jefferson, North Carolina to Abingdon, Virginia. The back of this print was signed by O. Winston Link and Conchita Mendoza Link.

   OWL2004.28.06

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6. Abingdon Branch Earl Carper, the Baggage and Express Messenger. - Earl Carper handled all baggage and express shipments sent via the Abindgon Branch. Even as late as the 1950's, smaller shipments of the sort Carper is moving out of the baggage car door were often shipped through the Railway Express Agnecy. Printed posthumously

   OWL2004.15.01

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7. Abingdon Branch Engineer Joe McNew buys a copy of "Grit" from Jerry Witherspoon. - Joe McNew, engineer hands Jerry Whiterspoon, a local boy for West Jefferson, North Carolina, a bill to buy Grit, the famous magazine intended for rural and small town readers which was then widely sold by young "newsboys." The magazine had been in continous publication since 1882.

   OWL2002.07.11

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8. Abingdon Branch Engineer Joe McNew spots Locomotive 429 under the water tank. - Engineer McNew has turned the locomotive on a wye and is moving to position the tender precisely under the spout on the water tank. After taking on water, McNew will pull the locomotive out and pick up the freight cars that will be going back north.

   OWL2002.08.07

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9. Abingdon Branch, train 201 departs Green Cove, on the way to White Top. - In November 1956, Winston Link worked at Green Cove, Virginia, on the N&W's Abingdon Branch. These photos include Maude Bows to the Virginia Creeper, one of Link's most famous images. This photo of Train 201 pulling away from the little Green Cove station, southbound to White Top, Virginia and on to West Jefferson, North Carolina was made a day or so later. The station had been bought some years before the N&W by W. M. Buchanan who operated a grocery store, post office and Western Union office there. The Buchanan family lived in the house seen to the right. Today the trees and fence are gone, as is the railroad, but the station remains. It is a favorite rest stop on the Virginia Creeper Trail, the hiking and bicycle trail which follows the preserved roadbed of the Abingdon Branch, between Abingdon, Virginia and the North Carolina border. The Buchanan's home remains too, and is now a bed and breakfast inn, operated by members of W. M. Buchanan's family.

   OWL2002.07.05

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10. Abingdon Branch, Train No. 202 at Bridge 8. - Train No. 202, the Abingdon Branch mixed train northbound from West Jefferson, North Carolina crosses Bridge 8 near Watauga, Virginia, a few miles south of Abingdon, Virginia. There is an identical version of this photo in black and white (NW 666).

    OWL2002.07.46

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11. Abingdon Branch, West Jefferson Passengers On Board Passenger Car - West Jefferson and near Nella, passengers on board passenger car, Abingdon Branch. There was a field trip on the train from Bristol Junior High School.

    OWL2007.04.1426

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12. Baggage And Passenger Cars With Kids Milling In Foreground - Freight cars pulled forward showing baggage and passenger cars; kids milling in foreground, West Jefferson, NC.

    OWL2007.04.1473

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13. Baggage And Passenger Cars With Kids Milling In Foreground - Same as NW 1473. Baggage and passenger cars with kids milling in foreground.

    OWL2007.04.1474

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14. D. S. "Nick" Nichols Filling Tender With Water - Black and white negative of NW 156. D. S. "Nick" Nichols fillling tender with water, close-up view. Used in Last Steam Railraod in America.

    OWL2007.04.156

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15. Engine 382 - Engine 382 approaching a group of people in Wst Jefferson, North Carolina, with a water tank on the left.

    OWL2007.08.362

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16. Engine 382 - Engine 382 approaching a group of people in Wst Jefferson, North Carolina, with a water tank on the left.

    OWL2007.08.361

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17. Engine 382 At West Jefferson, NC - Engine 382 at West Jefferson, NC.

    OWL2007.04.1515

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18. Engine 382 Taking On Water At West Jefferson, NC - Engine 382 taking on water at West Jefferson, NC.

    OWL2007.04.1517

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19. Engine 429 Backing Under The Y - Black and white negative of NW 150. Engine #429 backing under the Y, West Jefferson; some damages to negative--white specks in sky. J. M. Stevens - nicknamed Skutch; assistant brakeman; W. P. Cole, Box 47, Bluff City, TN.

    OWL2007.04.150

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20. Engine 429 Getting Steam Up - Black and white negative of NW 261. Engine #429 getting steam up, West Jefferson Station in background.

    OWL2007.04.261

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